Vanuatu, sentence 68
From Wikipedia, «Vanuatu», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
At the height of the labour trade, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the islands worked abroad.
Who acts: one, adult male population · What happens: population, work
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vanuatu». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, adult male population), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 height | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 height | det |
| 3 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 worked | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 trade | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trade | det |
| 6 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trade | compound |
| 7 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 height | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 population | punct |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 one | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 more | fixed |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 population | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 13 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 17 population | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 population | det |
| 15 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 population | amod |
| 16 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 population | amod |
| 17 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 worked | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 several | case |
| 19 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 population | amod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 islands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 islands | det |
| 22 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 several | obl |
| 23 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 23 worked | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | population | one | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | work | past | half adult male population | at the height of the labour trade; abroad property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at height=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Vanuatu», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Vanuatu/68/